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Rock stars. They’re just like you and me. Especially on this, the most sacred day of booze worship, St. Patrick’s Day. I usually don’t post on Sunday, but I thought this collection of some of my favorite rock stars enjoying their hooch seemed like the least I could do before I get drunk myself.

Lemmy Kilmister. The master of all things vice photographed without his usual Jack Daniels.

And if you’re headed out to celebrate today, or you’ve been out since 8 AM (I’m talking to you, Boston), say away from anything that involves you behind the wheel of a car. Or a bike. Or a tractor. Have fun calling in “sick” tomorrow!

So, if you’re a metalhead living in or around Toronto, you are currently consumed, still trying to wrap your mind around how the fuck you are going to score tickets for Black Sabbath’sfirst North American in Toronto August 14th. Opinions aside, there is no doubt that every date on this tour is going to sell out. So like you Toronto, I’m sitting in that same viking boat, rocking back and forth. Trying to come to terms with the fact that my Sabbath ticket, if I’m lucky engough to get one, will likely be the most expensive concert ticket I’ve ever purchased for a show, in my life. Second only to my recent acquisition of a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ticket. So you do the math. It’s not pretty. But it’s rock and roll. And I love it.

Sabbath’s ’13′ gets a June 11th release date. In this video of Rick Rubin lounging around while recording Sabbath, you get to hear some sound bites from the new record. In other very metal news, Sabbath’s world tour begins next month in New Zealand, then hits Australia and Japan from late July through September. The only North American date so far is in Canada, on August 14 at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. Tickets for the Toronto concert go on sale on April 13th.

I’m excited to be curating part of the Movies About Girls podcast this weekend as the gang takes on the short-lived TV music-variety show, Pink Lady and Jeff. Every so often, a MAG cast member gets to highlight some of their favorite, girl-centric vintage TV memories. This week, it was my turn. And since it seems that I don’t actually like any of my MAGmates, I made them all watch the first episode of the ill-fated 1980 “musical” variety show. We’ll play some clips, and get the MAG cast’s opinion of what can only be described as a “disasterpiece” (thanks for that, Ken). But that’s all I’m going to say about that. As usual, we’ll also run down our Top 5 and Bottom 5 DVD picks, let you know all the places in Florida you should avoid, as well as all the laffs you can handle!

Wake up headbanger! Friday is upon us! (image taken from the very metal book, “Metalheads” by Jörg Brüggemann)

Hey Friday, it’s about time you showed up. If you haven’t already, do check out the latest installment of the Movies About Girls podcast, episode #161. It was a super fun gasser that’ll have you grinning from ear to ear. CHECK IT OUT!

I’m currently typing this post, one day late, from a secluded spot on the Oregon coast. I have three things to say about my experience so far. One, vacation is awesome. Two, Oregon makes great beer. Three, vacation is awesome.

Ever wanted to know what it’s like touring with Motorhead? The new book by Pep Bonet called Röadkill, details the photographers intimate experience touring with Motorhead back in 2006. And since I know you don’t like to read, and because Bonet is a photographer, there are lots of pictures.

*(Editors note: Paul Stanley asked the 1988 version of me if he could “feel my boobs”. For the record, I was not backstage, a groupie, but the producer of the radio show he and the band were visiting, promoting “Smashes, Thrashes, and Hits”. I said no, but still had Stanley sign my Double Platinum gatefold. The End.) *

Like so many of us, I’m sending good vibes along to my very metal east coast friends, that are in the unfortunate path of winter storm “Nemo”. I was a kid growing up in Boston during the Blizard of ’78. My father built us a snow ramp that ran from our back yard to the street. It was super fast, and so high that you could almost see in the second floor windows while whizzing over what used to be the chain-link fence, and finally over the cars buried in the streets in front of our house. It was an awesome time to be 8 years old. But not so awesome for pretty much everyone else.

So since you’re going to be inside for a few hundred days, cursing about how that stupid groundhog was wrong AGAIN, have fun clicking the links below, reading all about the most metal things that happened this week, according to yours truly. Snowmageddon AHOY!

Do you really, really, love someone, who really, really loves Joey Ramone? Well, Joey Ramone’s record collection, and other personal items like Ramone’s t-shirts, and one of his famous leather jackets, will be put up for auction on February 14th.

Stream the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds record, “Push Away the Sky”, RIGHT NOW.

Don’t ask me how or why I know this you know why, but David Axelrod, President Obama’s campaign adviser, has become the target of the Italian Democratic Party in an ad currently running on the IDP website. Axelrod is currently working as an advisor on the re-election bid for Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, and the Italian Democratic Party doesn’t like that. So they decided to run an attack ad comparing Axelrod to Axl Rose. Because for some reason, the IDP thought comparing Axelrod to the most unflattering photo of Axl Rose (or maybe any human for that matter) ever taken, would turn people off to Minister Monti. Below is the translation of the ad.

“A guru recommended to Monti to attack his opponents. But the guru, sooner or later, will leave and Italy’s problems will remain.”

First of all, this makes no sense. Second of all, this makes no sense. Third of all, Axelrod isn’t even a ginger, so this makes no sense. Lastly, Guns n’ Roses is HUGE in Brazil, just like Axl was when he was there in 2011. So if the goal of the Italian Democratic Party was to give votes to Minister Mario Monti (and who wouldn’t want to with a name like that?), then THAT MAKES SENSE!

Welcome to your Friday my heavy metal friends! In addition to the tasty tidbits below, be on the lookout for a new episode of The Movies About Girls podcast! MAG #159 will hit Internets this weekend, as your favorite gang of teenage losers will undoubtedly bring in 2013 with a bang. In addition to our regular cringy antics, I’ve curated yet another truly awful segment of MAG’s favorite parlor game, “That’s Not A Real Band Name, Is It?”. And if you’re so inclined, check out MAG’s new Soundcloud page to hear some of your favorite MAG clips and crazy moments from the show. Now, let’s get to the important stuff…

Here’s a pretty sad looking Axl Rose, posing in your Nana’s robe with some random chick, somewhere (I think) in Chile. I can almost hear the sound of Slash laughing so hard that he blows Dr. Pepper out of his nose.